Easter Greetings, Sketch #202 for Sunday Sketch & Stamp

It's time for a new sketch at Sunday Sketch and Stamp. With only a week until Easter, I had to go with an Easter-themed card this week.  And, it's a great sketch, so I hope you join in!

Here's my card:

I used stamps from Unity Stamp Company's February 2014 Kit of the Month.  The papers are Webster's Pages, as is the button and twine.  The butterfly is a die from Cheery Lynn.

Check out the blog to see the great sketch, then link up with us.  There's prizes to be won!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

A Gem  of a Challenge -- Spring is in the Air

Little Claire Monthly Challenge -- lots of layers

Sunflower Fields Designs Monthly Challenge -- Spring or Easter

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge -- ATG

A Creative Need Monthly Challenge -- Signs of Spring

Craftitude Challenges -- ATG

Crafty Hands Challenge Blog -- ATG

Docerela Challenge -- ATG

Get Inky! Challenges -- Spring/Easter

Scrappin' 4 Fun Challenges -- ATG

Sister Act Card Challenge -- ATG

Aloha Friday Challenge -- Easter

Open-Minded Crafting Fun -- Easter or paster

Pumpkin Spice -- Easter

Alphabet Challenge - 'E' is for Easter

Bloggers Challenge -- Easter

Crafts for Eternity -- Easter

Santa Hats Galore -- for 3 Girl JAM

Hello, blog friends.  I'm posting today on the 3 Girl JAM blog.  Tomorrow, I'm getting together after work with my staff, and I needed cards for each of them. What better way to personalize gifts than with the many colors of 3 Girl JAM ribbon and the new Christmas Flair buttons?  I got busy:

 

Aren't they adorable?  I'll show you each one so you can see them up close.

I used my Silhouette and the Santa Hat cutting file from The Cutting Café.

 

 

I used Echo Park Christmas This & That papers on all 4 Santa hats.  Each was stamped with a sentiment from a Unity Stamp of the Month kit (Oct., 2012).  The first hat features 3 Girl JAM Goblin Green ribbon from the Spooky Bundle, and the peppermint twist Flair from the new Christmas Flair buttons.

Here's hat #2:

 

 

This hat uses the new Ribbon Candy Bundle and Christmas Flair button.

Hat #3 coming up:

 

 

This hat uses the Spooky Bundle ribbon again and a Pinque Peacock fabric covered button.

And, hat #4:

 

 

This hat uses Merlot ribbon from the Wine and Jewels Bundle and another of the adorable Christmas Flair Buttons.

I'll leave you with one last picture of all the hats together.

 

 

I promised to announce the winner of the 3 Girl JAM ribbon from last Friday's blog hop on my post today.  Random.org chose comment #11 -- Miriam Prantner!  Congrats, Miriam!  Contact me for you choice of ribbon color.

 

I can check one more thing off the "to do" list getting these hats made! Thanks for visiting! Come back tomorrow and Sunday.  I'm hopping with the Pinque Peacock design team both days.

 

Snail Mail

A sad, sad thing has happened.  My favorite place to buy scrapbooking supplies, and one of my favorite places to hang out on the internet, cropchocolate.com, is closing their online business at the end of May.  I just found out yesterday.  I feel like a piece of me is being left behind as well.  I have been a part of the CC community since the company began in 2009 and have made many friends on the site.  We're brainstorming ways to keep the friendships going. When their online business ends, so does my design team assignment.  I spent Saturday working on my next assignment for them.  It's no longer needed.  So it goes.  With that in mind, I'm hoping to get on a new team or two, to fill the gap, and mend this slightly broken scrappy heart of mine.  I've put out some feelers, and I'm hoping for results.  One of the possibilities that I'm very excited about is with a Challenge blog!  I love challenges!  Everyone at Crop Chocolate can tell you that I've entered every single week of challenges there.  I've never won one (it's why I don't gamble.  The winner is chosen from a hat -- literally), but I've entered every week of their 60 challenges ever offered.  Stuck On Us Sketches Challenges is adding some team members, including members for a new die cut challenge.  YES!  I would SO LOVE to be on that TEAM!  With my Silhouette, my 3 Cricuts, more cartridges than I can admit to, a Bigshot and a Grand Calibur and lots and lots of cutting dies, I'm set!  I rushed home from work today and whipped up this card, just to enter it in the challenge and let the powers that be see my style.  Here it is.  I hope you like it!

The challenge theme this time is crustaceans.  My scientist husband says, "yes, a snail qualifies as a crustacean."  I cleared it with him before I launched into the card.  I used a Lifestyle Crafts cutting die to make the window in the front of the card, and then a smaller one to stamp the snail on.  I mounted the snail on an adhesive spring (CTMH), to make it even more fun for the recipient when they open the envelope. The cardstock is Close To My Heart.  DP is Authentique Fresh 6x6 Collection.  The Snail stamp and sentiment are from the Unity Feb, 2009 Kit of the Month. I colored the snail with Copic markers, then used a little Creative Inspirations paints in Fairy Dust to give it a little lustre.  It shows up better IRL.

I have some blog candy I'm giving away this week in celebration of a very busy week of blogging for me.  I have a tutorial and post on The Crop Tuesday, April 30, and a post here on my blog, a blog hop with my 3 Girl Jam DT sisters on Wednesday celebrating the release of some gorgeous new ribbon colors and a SALE!, a blog post on the 3 Girl Jam challenge blog on Thursday, and a post here on this blog,  another blog hop on Friday with some art journal peeps.  We're the Mixed Media Mix Up, or the Mixed Up Media Girls, or something like that.  It's Friday-Sunday -- tons of fun, and I have a post here on Saturday for All That Stickles using Icicle Stickles.  So, to celebrate all this inspiration, I'm giving away a 6x6 paper pad, some Pincque Peacock stick pins, some twine, Stickles, miscellaneous bling, and some ribbon.  To be eligible to win, follow my blog and comment on this post, then come back each day this week and comment again to increase your chances of winning.  I'll announce the winner early next week when I've recovered from all this scrappy mojo.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Stuck on You Sketches -- die cut crustaceans
Simon Says Stamp -- anything goes
Sister Act Card Challenges -- anything goes
Creative Inspirations Paints -- anything goes
Great Impressions Stamps -- Pastel Colors &/or Polka Dots
D.L. Art -- anything goes

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